(February 27, 2017 at 9:30 am)Exian Wrote: I've never read the Talmud, but if that's actually in there and not some crazy ass translation, then yeah, that's gross as hell man. But you're telling me you've read 10 religious texts (I think you mean different texts from different religions) and you haven't found anything perverse in any of them, except the Talmud?
He clearly hasn't read them. Googled the first quote and, in context, it is saying that if a child under three has been raped, and converts to judaism, then they are essentially treated as if they were a virgin, in terms of their marital value. It is not a permission or vindication of the abuser like Harris would have you believe.
That's not to say that the wider context isn't objectionable in terms of treating women as a possession, or why you would treat a child abuse victim aged 4 differently (although as I understand it from my brief google, age 3 is the minimum age when a girl can be 'betrothed', although the 'age of consent' is 9), but that isn't at all unique to Judaism's big heap of shit.